About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Saturday, July 07, 2007

July 7......

July 7 is the 188th (189th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining in the year on this date.

The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Patriot Act "For the first time in our history, American citizens have been seized by the executive branch of government and put in prison without being charged with a crime, without having the right to a trial, without being able to see a lawyer, and without even being able to contact their families." — Al Gore

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis . . . . I often use it to describe women who are obsessed with perpetuating a modern-day holocaust: abortion." — Rush "I must be sedated" Limbaugh

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "I think we're on the road to coming to answers that I don't think any of us in total feel we have the answers to." — Kim Anderson, mayor of Naples, Florida

Thought for the day: "Bachelor's wives and spinster's children are always perfect."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

Infrared Trifid

Credit: J. Rho (SSC/Caltech), JPL-Caltech, NASAClick picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

EVENTS

● 175 - Commodus is proclaimed emperor in Rome.

● 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. {Thus showing the most obvious flaw in the death penalty, there is NO hope for the wrongfully executed.}

● 1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.

● 1540 - Spanish storm Hawikuh (Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico). Francisco Vasquez de Coronado believes it one of the Seven Cities of Gold; first skirmish between Indians and Europeans in what is now western U.S.

● 1844 - Irish Catholics and Philadelphia Nativist Protestants stage a cannon battle at the Church of St. Philip de Neri. Thirteen killed.

● 1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.

● 1851 - Birth of Charles A. Tindley, African-American Methodist preacher and song writer. His most enduring gospel hymns include 'Stand By Me,' 'Nothing Between,' 'Leave It There' and 'By and By.'

● 1862 - Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land

● 1862 - The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri.

● 1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100 {This was the true cause of the riots depicted in the movie, "The Gangs of New York."}

● 1865 - Four Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, hanged. Surratt is the first woman hanged in the U.S. Women hung previously were in the colonies before the creation of the country.

● 1867 - C H F Peters discovers asteroid #92 Undina

● 1883 - Chief Moses of the Sinkiuses (Chelan tribe) forced to move from their Columbia River reservation to the Colville reservation; the former is "restored to public domain."

● 1885 - G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine.

● 1890 - Birth of Marius Paul Metge, French anarchist, individualist, and illegaliste, a member of the Bonnot Gang.

● 1891 - Travelers cheque patented

● 1898 - History of United States overseas expansion: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

● 1903 - "March of the Mill Children" begins. Labor organizer Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones leads the "March of the Mill Children" from Philadelphia to Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York (over 100 miles) to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor and to demand a 55 hour work week. It is during this march, on about the 24th, she delivers her famed "The Wail of the Children" speech. Roosevelt refuses to see them.

● 1904 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #537 Pauly

● 1905 - 127° F (53° C), Parker, Arizona (state record)

● 1906 - Satchel Paige, the pitching star of Negro League and major-league baseball, was born.

● 1946 - Italian-American educator, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) became the first American citizen to be made a saint in the Catholic Church. She arrived in the U.S. in 1889, and was naturalized in 1909.

● 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.

● 1959 - 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

● 1959 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'I "believed" theoretically in the divine forgiveness for years before it really came home to me. It is a wonderful thing when it does.'

● 1960 - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea

● 1963 - Seven perish as a disabled Marine jet crashes into a day camp near Willow Grove, Penn. The pilot parachuted to safety.

● 1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.

● 1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.

● 1969 - In Fayette, Charles Ever sworn in as first black mayor of bi-racial town in Mississippi since Reconstruction.

● 1969 - Brian Jones died of 'drink and drugs'; Former Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones, drowned after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs, an inquest is told.

● 1970 - England - Army recruiting office in South London and the Officer Training Centre in Holborn are firebombed.

● 1973 - 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)

● 1976 - British grandmother missing in Uganda; Ugandan authorities deny knowledge of the whereabouts of missing British-Israeli citizen Dora Bloch. {She was ill passenger on hijacked airliner "taken" to hospital never to seen or heard from again..}

● 1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. {She is pleasant surprise on the court turning out to be a moderate.}

● 1983 - Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.

● 1984 - 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt

● 1986 - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law

● 1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women

● 1987 - Lt. Col. Oliver North began his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization. His later proud admission of lying to Congress would form the basis of his subsequent career as a politician, pundit, and hero among right wing "moral" zealots {zeroes}.

● 1988 - The first of many syringes, blood vials and other hospital souvenirs -- some contaminated with the AIDS virus -- washes ashore on Long Island, forcing the closing of miles of beaches in the midst of the worst East Coast heat wave of the decade. Officials downplay the risk to bathers, pointing out that these items make up only a small percentage of beach debris.

● 1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

● 1993 - Singer Mia Zapata, 27, a member of the Seattle band The Gits, is strangled while walking home in the late evening from a Seattle pub. Her unsolved murder spurs local musicians and feminists to found the self-defense collective "Home Alive." Ten years later, DNA evidence would lead police to arrest a homeless drifter in connection with her murder.

● 1994 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.

● 1998 - Puerto Rico - Half a million people participate when a general strike called by over 60 trade unions and a large number of civic, religious, student, and cultural organizations, against privatization. Largest ever protest in Puerto Rico. Strike brings the country, er, American colony to a halt.

● 1998 - Two anti-racist skinheads killed in Las Vegas.

● 1999 - In Sierra Leone, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and rebel leader Foday Sankoh signed a pact to end the nation's civil war.

● 1999 - A jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for making a defective product that causes emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses.

● 2001 - Two stabbed in Bradford race riots; Two people are stabbed and many more injured in running battles between white and Asian gangs in Bradford.

● 2002 - A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.

● 2006 - Syd Barrett, British musician, co-founder and former member of Pink Floyd (b. 1946)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:● St. Ampelius of Milan● St. Angelelmus of Auxerre● St. Apollonius of Brescia● St. Astius● St. Benedict XI, Pope● St. Bonitus● St. Bonitus of Monte Cassino● Sts. Claudius, Nicostratus & Companions● St. Ercongota of Faremoutiers● St. Ethelburga of Faremoutiers● St. Felix of Nantes● St. Hedda of Winchester● St. Humphrey Lawrence● St. Illidius of Clermont● St. Laurence Humphrey● St. Maolruain of Tallaght● Sts. Medran & Odran● St. Merryn● St. Odo of Urgell● St. Palladius of Ireland● St. Pantaenus of Alexandria● St. Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompeius, & Companions● Sts. Roger Dickenson and Ralph Milner● St. Sethrida● Bl. Lawrence Humphrey● Bl. Ralph Milner

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 25 (Civil Date: July 7)● Virgin Martyr Febronia of Nisibis.● Prince and Princess Febronia (tonsured David and Euphrosyne), Wonderworkers of Murom.● Virgin Martyrs Leonis, Libye, and Eutropia of Syria.● St. Symeon of Sinai.● Saints Dionysius and Dometius of the Monastery of the Forerunner on Mt. Athos.● New-Martyr Procopius of Mt. Athos. who suffered at Smyrna.● New-Martyr George of Attalia.● Repose of Hiero-deacon Serapion (1859) and Schema-archimandrite Heliodorus of Glinsk Hermitage (1879).

● Old Catholic: St. Methodius (Cyril), devised Cyrillic alphabet

● Orthodox Church:● Nativity of St John the Forerunner (6/24 OS)● St. Job of Maniava

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